The Guitar Crush

It's amazing how a small wooden instrument can infuse so much adulation in people. Believe me or, not but just a guitar hanging from your shoulder can make a big difference in terms of attracting envy and admiration at the same time. 

I remember how there was a mad craze among people to learn guitar when I was a kid. The kids used to hang around just to get a feel of the wooden stuff and pose with it for some style. It was really funny as there were always more people around than the people who actually played guitar or, those who were trying their best to learn it.

I never understood this fiasco. They were so many people who wanted to learn guitar. They did bought an expensive one, joined classes, came for a week, and then all of a sudden …woof…they disappeared! And it happened to every 1 out of 4 students. The plausible reasons:

1.  May be they wanted to tell everyone they were learning it and that itself made them popular.

2.  May be they wanted to straight away become Keith Urban. Too bad they didn't realize it was like climbing a cliff straight up.

3.  The fingers hurt a lot initially and most of them are not able to console that pain with the bad zing-zings that they make in the early months.

4. The initial feedback serves as a moral breaker for some of them.

5. All they want to learn is few songs. That too the real tough ones and nobody has the patience to go step by step.

Sorry…! But this doesn't works out this way, because at least this is something in life in which there is definitely No short cuts.

Learning guitar is just like falling in love. You see someone, you get attracted to her/him, start going out with her/him, slowly with time you start liking the person even more, the attraction becomes stronger and intimate and before you even realize it is getting serious, you are already in love! That's exactly the way a guitar grows on you. You never know when it ceases to be a non-living thing and becomes a part of your existence.

That's why I say for playing guitar you need to be in love with it. It can be a crush initially but it should mature to a serious love and it better be fast.

And please don't learn it just because you need to build up a social image, acceptability or, serve your designs of wooing girls. As believe me, it won't work. You would end up a looser. The reason being that just like a relationship, if you don't start it with an honest effort, chances are that later you may try everything but it won't work out in the end. 

So as a final advice, I would say….just let your self fall in love with this beautiful wooden beauty. And trust me…this would be the only love of your life which would never hurt....instead would grow stronger with time and even cleanse your soul of all the sorrows, fatigue and frustrations of life.